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James Whale, the elegant director of such classic horror films as Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein, was found at his Los Angeles mansion in 1957, dead of unnatural causes.
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Nostalgic, intimate, prestige and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Bram
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Plume, Dutton, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525939139
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First sentence
“NIGHT. RAIN. A WHISTLING SEETHE OF WIND.”
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